A.X.L. | August 24th, 2018 | Global Road (formerly known as Open Road) | Alex Neustaedter, Becky G, Lucy Hale | Sci-Fi Family Adventure film

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Global Road - formerly known as Open Road - has officially dated a new science fiction called A.X.L., which is based on a short film by new director Oliver Daly. Box Office Mojo is currently listing its genre as 'Family Adventure', and the site is placing it under both the 'cyborg/android/robot' and 'dog' categories.

 

Here is a synopsis that I found:

 

• AXL is the story of a teenage boy whose life is forever altered by a chance encounter with cutting edge military technology. 18 year old Miles is searching for a way out of his small California town. But when he stumbles upon A.X.L., an escaped prototype of an advanced robot, he finds himself in an unlikely friendship, and the target of a massive manhunt that puts him and everyone he cares about in danger. AXL is a movie about growing up, finding first love, and what lies beyond the boundaries of humanity and technology.

 

It sounds a little bit like 'what if E.T. was a robot', but that's just me. The concept certainly has potential... if it's well executed, that is.

 

A.X.L. is currently slated to release against Mirror/LD's drama Dog Days, Warner Bros' shark film The Meg, and MGM's Anne Hathaway / Rebel Wilson comedy The Hustle.

Edited May 10, 2018 by Slambros

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http://www.boxofficemojo.com/schedule/?view=&release=&date=2018-08-03&showweeks=5&p=.htm

 

The family sci-fi film A.X.L. shifted its release date down two weeks; it is now releasing on August 24th against Entertainment Studios' Replicas and Screen Gems' Slender Man; there is a slight genre similarity against Replicas, but overall, I feel like it is a nice call to stand in a single weekend as the only family film. Though the real battle is against Lionsgate's child-starring sci-fi film Kin, which opens on the following weekend. Will one topple the other? Or will they coexist? That'll depend on their quality.

Edited May 10, 2018 by Slambros

[Morieris]

Let me guess, there's a - yep, yay, a robot! 

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Just now, Morieris said:

Let me guess, there's a - yep, yay, a robot! 

 

And according to its page on Box Office Mojo, it might even be a robot dog.

[Morieris]

10 minutes ago, Slambros said:

 

And according to its page on Box Office Mojo, it might even be a robot dog.

 

It just keeps getting better!

[Eric Atreides]

Did someone say robot dog?

 

[aabattery]

6 minutes ago, CoolEric258 said:

Did someone say robot dog?

 

 

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42 minutes ago, CoolEric258 said:

Did someone say robot dog?

 

 

35 minutes ago, aabattery said:

 

 

[Blaze Heatnix]

I discovered this movie 2 minutes ago...

Trailer: 

 

 

It seems to be getting a wide release. By the way, the movie is already leaked online, if anybody cares...

[MrGlass2]

Bumblebee but with a robot dog?

[TombRaider]

so lucy hale is playing the robot dog?

[filmlover]

5 minutes ago, TombRaider said:

so lucy hale is playing the robot dog?

She's not in this anymore (guessing she originally got the Becky G part but dropped out).

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What do you think, everyone? Do you think this'll do better or worse than Max Steel?

[TombRaider]

6 minutes ago, filmlover said:

She's not in this anymore (guessing she originally got the Becky G part but dropped out).

yeah i was kidding. becky >>> her tho

[WrathOfHan]

3 hours ago, Blaze Heatnix said:

By the way, the movie is already leaked online, if anybody cares...

loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool

 

I'm really thinking this will get a sub-1k PTA 

[AJG]

So there has to be some drug money involved with this, right? Something is wrong here. Becky G hasn’t even posted about this movie online yet.

[filmlover]

5 minutes ago, AJG said:

So there has to be some drug money involved with this, right? Something is wrong here. Becky G hasn’t even posted about this movie online yet.

If only TOG were here to complain about the existence of this obvious Monster Trucks rip-off.

[Blaze Heatnix]

1 hour ago, WrathOfHan said:

loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool

 

I'm really thinking this will get a sub-1k PTA 

 

This movie hasn't been promoted at all. I discovered it by accident when I was looking for a Jason Statham movie called Blitz ( old movie ). Somehow the trailer for this robot dog movie popped in and I got curious and surprised to notice this thing is getting released next week XD

[WrathOfHan]

15 minutes ago, Blaze Heatnix said:

 

This movie hasn't been promoted at all. I discovered it by accident when I was looking for a Jason Statham movie called Blitz ( old movie ). Somehow the trailer for this robot dog movie popped in and I got curious and surprised to notice this thing is getting released next week XD

The trailer bombed at my showing of The Meg on Friday.

[filmlover]

They've been promoting this on the TVs at Sawgrass. Then again, they always promote the most random flops.